Review Request 116648: Split into one KCM for Desktop Effects and one for Compositing

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> On March 10, 2014, 9:20 a.m., Thomas Lübking wrote:
> > File Attachment: Latest kcmcompositing screenshot - kcmcompositing.png
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116648/#fcomment181>
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> >     Would this rather belong into the FX kcm?

The "Enable Desktop Effects on Startup" option is one which several people have suggested should be in the Effects kcm.
I talked to Martin about this and he suggested that people without advanced technical understanding would be better off just leaving it unchanged, and that this only affects Xorg anyway.
Since I lack the technical knowledge to really judge whether this makes sense, I just trust him about it.
On the other hand, it would be convenient for people who just don't want any effects at all to be able to turn them all off with a single click instead of having to turn each one off individually. This should not be done with a separate checkbox which "normal" people don't understand anyway, though, but with a global checkbox above the other checkboxes which can check or uncheck all other checkboxes.


- Thomas


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On March 10, 2014, 9:03 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated March 10, 2014, 9:03 a.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma and Antonis Tsiapaliokas.
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> Repository: kwin-compositing-kcm
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> Description
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> Split into one KCM for Desktop Effects and one for Compositing
> 
> Let's try getting the KCM a little bit less scary by properly
> hiding everything the user doesn't have to care about. The prominent
> desktop effects KCM only contains the list of all the effects which
> can be configured and nothing else. Only exception is the disabled
> check after failed GL to make this easier for the user.
> 
> All the "advanced" settings are moved into a new KCM called
> "Compositing" which is put under the hardware component in
> systemsettings. This contains all advanced settings including
> * whether compositing is enabled at all
> * backend
> * animation speeed
> * scale filter
> * unredirect fullscreen
> * color correction
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> 
> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt d70672f3937fb44240c2c2d8e2a8d90c67890e2a 
>   kcmkwineffects.desktop PRE-CREATION 
>   kwincompositing.desktop 88ecf46b393df947d6b59ce53c924a82fc65756a 
>   main.cpp 5c68722961be9b8a0a48f3221df7c033ba3cf946 
>   model.h 2efa2a9df63ee7f7ec483df004ff9530fdc0f852 
>   model.cpp 2b25fe04ccacf0fb719956b1b5fa0267611747e6 
>   qml/CompositingView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   qml/EffectView.qml c1a66dfa41409ba04c4cf4ddded3d95bb4bfaef2 
>   qml/OpenGLErrorView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   qml/main-compositing.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   qml/main.qml d22dd08da529df938d99ff9d43f52f7b33a7f2d3 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116648/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> New advanced compositing KCM
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/e20bc5a1-c873-497a-b005-efb6b58da7c5__kcmcompositing.png
> New effects KCM
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/0d6c955e-fdd2-4a84-91b4-53959f2745f5__kcmeffects.png
> Effects KCM with GHNS button
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/f467b643-5341-4cfe-8282-eeea93bc98e5__kcmeffects.png
> Latest kcmcompositing screenshot
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/10/70df036e-f3ad-455d-a323-c8f36220afd4__kcmcompositing.png
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
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